Feasibility assessment | Challenges faced | Addressing the challenges | Recommendations |
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Evaluation of recruitment feasibility and how would recruitment challenges impact the sample characteristics | Lower numbers recruited than expected | Addition of further centres to support recruitment efforts | Targeted recruitment efforts (community-based recruitment, collaboration with non-governmental organizations,outpatient health centers…) |
Analyze characteristics of those lost to follow up | |||
Participants not meeting eligibility criteria | Hiring additional research personnel | Build a representative sample which includes all socioeconomic levels | |
Evaluation of available resources and how would challenges impact the study implementation and progress | Rising transportation costs | Scheduling follow-up visits alongside the paediatrician’s visit to limit the need for transportation to the medical centre | Scheduling study related visits alongside healthcare follow-up visit |
Rising charges for consultation visits | Hiring additional research personnel | Providing transportation fees | |
Evaluation of data collection measures and how would limitations in data collection impact measurements of both the outcome and risk factors | Limited and inaccurate data on finances | Collect data on additional measures of financial capabilities: assets owned, ability to acquire basic needs, perception of wealth inequality through society ranking scale | Collecting data on proxy measures of financial capabilities |